Health clinic could open by spring, at least that’s the hope

Wayne McCall, the Oconee County councilman, remains optimistic that an inter-government cooperative effort will allow for health care to once again be administered from a large county building that once served as the Oconee County Health Department. McCall is targeting the large building that sits one block behind the county courthouse in Walhalla to be re-fitted as a low cost clinic for Walhallans and other residents of the upper part of the county to access a public clinic closer than the Rosa Clark clinic at the Oconee Memorial Hospital. And, working with the Clemson nursing school, McCall envisions the project to be a cooperative effort like the one that he and Russ Price, the Walhalla public works director, led to re-open the city swimming pool. With the cooperation of Sheriff Crenshaw, McCall expects to use state prison labor to help keep down the taxpayers’ costs.